Christopher Moore's History News

Blogging will be slim to none until the new year, and maybe then there will be some review of the big history reads of  the past year. Enjoy...

Early in 2025 I reported here that I was reading Middlemarch by George Eliot, and suggested i might report in on progress from time to time...

In an opinion piece about political leadership in the Toronto Star, columnist Martin Regg Cohn twice refers to the Ontario Liberal Party...

I'm not a reader of the National Post , but one of its frequent contributors, the British Columbia writer Terry Glavin, recently had som...

Dropped by the U of T Bookstore in Toronto last night to hear Patrice Dutil and J.D.M. Stewart talk about their recent books, Dutil's on...

Military historian and prolific author Donald E Graves died on November 11.  His major works cover the War of 1812, which probably no one el...

Wesley Wark, historian and national security/ intelligence consultant has thoughts  on the F-35 and Saab Gripen fighter jets choice. TLDR: b...

 

  On the United States' Thanksgiving Day, I fee grateful that I have no need or reason to visit the United States right now.  This story...

Legal historians in the news. Historian Carolyn Strange's book, Fatal Confession , which we noted here in a recent post on the Osgoode ...

The Local , a Toronto-area version of those online newspapers offering coverage that rivals or extends what the more established media have,...

Donald Wright drew my attention to his recent appreciation of J.R. Miller in Active History .  Here's the link (also added to my obitua...

Saturday's Globe and Mail included a substantial review of Eric Adams and Jordan Stanger-Ross's book Challenging Exile , the account...